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    Sometimes I wonder why I ever wanted to drive. This morning as I was backing up the car, I ____ the car behind me. After I dropped off my children at their school, I started driving to a small town thirty miles away, where I had a meeting. While I ____ along a beautiful, quiet country road, suddenly I saw some chickens ____the road. Before I knew it, I had run over one of them,  and the farmer ran out of her house shaking her fist（拳头）at me. It seemed country roads were not so____after all, and I decided to take the highway instead. I turned off at the third exit, and before I knew it there was a police car ____ me. The policeman gave me a $ 150 ticket for going through a stop sign. I swear I didn't see it. Besides, that's a stupid place to put a stop sign.

    Anyway, to make a bad day even ____, on my way home after I picked up my children from school, my car broke down. It cost me $ 65 to pull it to the nearest mechanic and another $ 400 to get it fixed. Next time I'm going to take a taxi.